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Chadwick F. Alger is Professor Emeritus
of Political Science at Ohio State University. Among his many significant
scholarly contributions are The United
Nations system (2006), The Future of
the United Nations System: Potential for the Twenty-first Century (1998), and
A Just Peace through Transformation (1988). He has been President of the
International Studies Association, the International Peace Research
Association, and the Consortium for Peace Research, Education and Development.
Volker Franke
is Director of Research at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
in Bonn, Germany. He is the editor of Terrorism and
Peacekeeping (2005) and Security in a
Changing World (2002) as well as the author of numerous journal articles on
social identity, peace and security studies and military socialization.
Willemijn Verkoren works at the University of Amsterdam’s
International School for Humanities and Social Sciences as well as a freelance
researcher and lecturer. Her publications include a co-edited book Postconflict Development: Meeting New Challenges
(2004).
Frederic S. Pearson is Professor of
Political Science and Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at
Wayne State University. His
interest and research is in the fields of international military intervention,
arms transfer effects on civil and international wars, and ethnic conflict
analysis.
Scott Walker is Lecturer in the School
of Political Science and Communication at the University of Canterbury in New
Zealand. His research includes
investigating the determinants of human rights violations, causes of success in
settlements to intrastate conflict and the impact of United States military
intervention on prospects for democratisation.
Stephanie Rose Stern currently studies
education policy, nonprofit management and grassroots community building
through her occupation as a Director of Projects for a national nonprofit that
works within Detroit Public Schools.
Earl Conteh-Morgan
is Professor of International Studies at the University of South Florida. His
most recent book is Collective Political
Violence (2003), and he currently works on a project examining the
interface between globalization, human security, and peacebuilding
in failed states.
Abdu'l-Aziz Said founded and
serves as director of American University’s International Peace and
Conflict Resolution Division in the School of International Service, and is
also the director of the Center for Global Peace at American University. He was
advisor to the Democratic Principles Working Group of the United States
Department of State’s “Future of Iraq Project.”
Charles O. Lerche
is the Associate Director of the M.A. in Diplomacy program at Norwich
University (Vermont). In addition to many academic journal articles, he has
co-authored Concepts of International
Politics in Global Perspective and edited two volumes of essays on world
order studies.
Nathan C. Funk is Assistant
Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel
University College. His books on
the role of cultural and religious factors in peacemaking include Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam
(2001) and Ameen Rihani: Bridging
East and West (2004).